Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Moebius Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 07:00:47 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <23311c1a-1487-4ee4-a822-cd965bd024a0@att.net> <71758f338eb239b7419418f49dfd8177c59d778b@i2pn2.org> Reply-To: invalid@example.invalid MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:00:48 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5c7b806b0e666b2f903894d226c0c641"; logging-data="4070219"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/SWEroU9zF6aODjxOsT5wT" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:spm6nnWs8ALu3AJORhXLi951DjI= Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2639 Am 03.12.2024 um 06:47 schrieb Moebius: > Am 03.12.2024 um 06:34 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson: > Then the following can be shown: > >      lim_(n->oo) {1, 2, 3, ..., n} = {1, 2, 3, ...} . > While this seems to be intuitively clear, the following is less clear (I'd say): > >      lim_(n->oo) {n, n+1, n+2, ...} = {} . :-P That's where WM fails. For him lim_(n->oo) {n, n+1, n+2, ...} =/= {} (has to be), after all, for all n e IN: {n, n+1, n+2, ...} =/= {} [even worse: for all n e IN: {n, n+1, n+2, ...} is infinite!]. > Hope this helps. :-P > > . > . > . >